>all the /pol/tards ITT
>>64384743
This excuse doesn't work because while the age at which one can make pornography happens to coincide with the age of sexual consent in several US states, the latter is often lower in most states and countries. Banning it is a dangerous solution, and was only applied in Europe because they imported the pedoscare at the time. But this is not the central issue. I won't be justifying having sex with prepubescent children; the essence of the conversation is that banning computer data sets a dangerous precedent.
The legal and law enforcement infrastructure for arresting people over data they possess should not exist in the first place. In Europe, much of the same infrastructure is used to detain people over their exercising of free speech, and in the US is already being used to detain people over the stuff you mentioned being OK as the Overton window shifts;
>>64384755
Again, it's hard to see through all this because you think it's icky. I don't blame you, I used to think the same. It's difficult to argue for this issue due to kneejerk reactions people have to it, but as an opposite of reductio ad absurdum, consider how vocal people are against the War on Drugs despite it also having an ostensibly noble goal, recognizing it for the breach of liberty that it is and citing drug planting by police and it going after the wrong people as evidence, both issues that happen with counter-CSAM efforts, mostly because drugs were perceived to be used more by black people in contrast to the gross white pedo stereotype.